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Patrick Sookhdeo is the International Director of the Barnabas Fund and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity.
Patrick, you talk of a major change in the way the Western world has come to perceive Islam since the events of September 11th. What has changed?
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Christians have again come under attack by mobs of angry Muslims in Northern Nigeria. The rioting apparently started following an allegation that a Christian woman had made insulting comments about Muhammad.
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The men are to be executed on Thursday, September 21, 2006. They were the only ones charged in a conflict in which massive numbers of Muslims participated. After their execution was stayed last month by the Attorney General for Central Sulawesi, Mohammad Yahya Sibe, he was suddenly replaced.
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Local villagers demolished the house of a pastor in the Phulbani district of Orissa state on September 8. After he filed a police complaint, he was charged with the rape of a middle-aged woman and arrested on September 11.
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Churches have joined in the widespread denunciation of three bomb blasts near to a Muslim mosque at Malegaon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra which left at least 31 dead and more than 200 injured.
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The world's biggest church grouping is urging religious leaders to examine behaviour, attitudes and actions that stigmatise people living with HIV and AIDS, while also calling on churches to adopt workplace policies inclusive of HIV-positive people.
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On the evening of August 19, Santu Adhikary, 33, a worker for Christian Life Bangladesh (CLB), was attacked by four unidentified terrorists at Bowfal in Patuakhali, a southern district of Bangladesh. Four masked terrorists grabbed Santu while he was on a bicycle.
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The steady increase in the movement of people around the globe is one of the main features in today's world and is having a deep impact on churches, the main governing body of the World Council of Churches has heard.
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